How to remove application shortcut from home screen on uninstall automaticaly?

Edit: If you are going to pre-install apps (but not on the firmware as commonsware. Com notes), you could pre-install two APKs. One of which has no launcher and consists only of a broadcast receiver which handles the ACTION_PACKAGE_REMOVED event and calls UNINSTALL_SHORTCUT I don't believe there is any explicit permission checks that require a shortcut to be removed by the same app that added it, but you could get around that anyway by using a sharedUserId for both APKs.

I don't believe you can do this. Firstly because you cannot uninstall applications that are pre-installed on the device firmware — they exist on the /system partition which is a read-only filesystem. Secondly, as you note, your application receives no notification that it is being uninstalled.

If users may not want to use your application, won't they just ignore the application icon, much like I do for a couple of pre-installed apps on my phone? Edit: If you are going to pre-install apps (but not on the firmware as commonsware. Com notes), you could pre-install two APKs.

One of which has no launcher and consists only of a broadcast receiver which handles the ACTION_PACKAGE_REMOVED event and calls UNINSTALL_SHORTCUT. I don't believe there is any explicit permission checks that require a shortcut to be removed by the same app that added it, but you could get around that anyway by using a sharedUserId for both APKs.

Note that "pre-installed" does not necessarily imply "firmware". It is possible to have an application installed as if it were a normal application, but just so happens to ship on the device in advance. The ARCHOS 5 Android tablet did that with a dozen or so apps, for example.

– CommonsWare Jan 25 '10 at 12:13 Indeed. I'm working with devices that will have apps installed on the firmware, so I made sure to mention the firmware part. But I think the problem will still stand anyway due to the lack of PACKAGE_REMOVED broadcast.

– Christopher Jan 25 '10 at 12:33 Though your comment prompted me to add a potential solution for non-firmware pre-installs. :) – Christopher Jan 25 '10 at 12:40 Christopher, thanks for the idea with two applications, I'll check if it's suitable for my application. – Pr0v0dn1k Jan 25 '10 at 21:38.

What you are describing is a limitation of the Home screen. The next version of Launcher2 addresses this issue and automatically removes widgets and shortcuts associated with an app. Some shortcuts might be left though if no association can be found (if your app creates a shortcut to the music player for instance.).

Sounds great. What version will include the new Launcher? – Pr0v0dn1k Jan 26 '10 at 19:42.

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